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Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge

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Built
  
1937

NRHP Reference #
  
94000994

Area
  
8,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
26 August 1994

MPS
  
Conway MRA

Opened
  
1937

Body of water
  
Waccamaw River

Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge

Location
  
US 501 Bus. (Main Street) over the Waccamaw R., Conway, South Carolina

Architect
  
Gooding, W. J.; Tidewater Construction Company

Architectural style
  
Continuous steel girder

Similar
  
Kingston Presbyterian Church, Conway Riverwalk, Campbell's Covered Bridge

Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge is a historic bridge located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina.

It was built in 1937 and opened to the public in April 1938, designated as a memorial to Horry County citizens who served in America’s wars from the American Revolution through the First World War. Its cost was $370,000. It is 1,270 feet long and carries U.S. Route 501 Business over the Waccamaw River. It is a multi-span continuous steel girder bridge made up of four steel girder main spans, four continuous steel string approach spans, and concrete piers which support the bridge deck. It features 28 cast-iron light standards along the balustrade, and the Gothic-influenced pointed arches cut out of its concrete piers.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge Wikipedia